... this pic, the boy is telling me, "NUH- HHHH!"it stinks, because even his naughtiness is cute.but i don't think its going to last much longer.its starting to wear on me. but i'm feeling his grump.this computer thing is buggin' me!if you're wondering how i'm able to blog, with a dead computer,i hijacked nicole's for a bit. and that pic above?do you see the high ...

[grump] Was so knackered last night I decided I'd close down at 12.30 and get a decent night's sleep. Checked my backwards clock at 12.15 and thought I'd just have time to reach a natural break in the piece of fic I was working on... When I next looked up the clock read 12.17. 'Funny', I thought, 'could have sworn I've been longer than a couple of minutes...' I ...

1. The theme from Arthur is jammed in my head. Thanks a lot, Ryan. Your video is cute, but the song! THE SONG. 2. This is the biggie for me: a semi-possible offer from a dreamy fabu publisher is not going to happen. 3. Christmas. I'm getting worse at that holiday, or rather the season. I should have been trained in it better. 4. Rain, rain, more rain. 5. The house smells like an old damp ...

First, you have to read this. You will probably have to pause, breathless, a few times. The leaps are large in this piece, especially when she tries to explain the epiphanies she had about mothering when her SIL became vegetative and the time she spent creative narrative for her SIL’s kids. And a lot of details and the willingness to lay bare go pretty deep, on one level. But on another ...

Today is a day of great grump. Stupid hormones. Blargh. That is all. Until I have something else to rant about. (Oh, on the non-ranting level, going to the Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremonies in Oakland on Friday to represent our workplace and the LGBTQ group we are working with/helping organize, et al.)

I've gotten too far from the curmudgeonly roots of this blog. Here are four things I'm sick to death of: I don't know why, but leopard print has always rubbed me the wrong way. I have yet to have an epiphany and realize that it's the greatest thing there ever has been. It's just awful, when it isn't mutton dressed as lamb it's lamb dressed as Zooey Deschanel, and I ...

Sam's Club did me wrong tonight. Like, really wrong. I'm still furious and I'll be drafting a letter to the corporate office to plead my case... tomorrow. Why? Remember when my dad had his cardiac event and went to the ER in an ambulance? Bob and I were the first to arrive at the hospital. Second to arrive was our Pastor, who spent two seconds checking in at the ER window and then ...

I know many people won't believe it but V was a grump today. She got her 12 month jabs this morning. I figured she'd take a good long nap at nursery as her jabs tend to make her sleepy. How much nap did she get today? None. Nada. Zilch, Zero. Instead of taking more than her usual nap, she took none. The nursery staff said they tried (which I don't doubt). I picked her up at 6, she ...

Sometimes I have a hard time with holidays. My intention is to be happy and make a festive home, but part of me wants to go back to bed and sleep right through the day. I woke up all set to get busy, but as the day went on I could feel my celebratory spirit slipping away. I kept cooking, getting organized, taking pictures, talking to Sarah, but I missed my daughter Bailey and I missed the ...

Ugh, I feel so crabby today. I think I just got off to a bad start with my daughter getting me up at 6 am because she didn't want to sleep in her own bed, and I had to tell her three times that she could *not* get in bed with me. I never really got back to sleep, then the alarm went off and it was time to get up. The cat is still going potty on the carpet. We are finding this very ...

Sitting in a tucked away corner in the library by myself and a whole lot of stuff. the girls who had been opposite me are now gone so it's nice and quiet. it's always nice and quiet in the library in the later part of the semester, which i enjoy. but i also find it slightly depressing to see cars filled with stuff leaving dunedin for the summer. and people pulling stuff and boxes out of ...

A lot of y’all know that I am not a sports fan. I mean, I do watch things like downhill ski racing sometimes. I wasn’t ever a very good downhill skier but I could get down most hills and a few mountains intact if not gracefully and I have an idea what those skiers are doing. Football? Baseball? Basketball? Ho-hum. Golf? Ho-hummmm. Part of the problem is that, given the choice between ...

I'm feeling really down and nauseous today. I'm not really sure why although I suspect that forgetting to take the Venlafaxine last night won't be helping. I've been getting increasingly housebound again and this would be enough to get anyone down! MSN and Facebook were annoying me last night and something just snapped. I ended up deleting my Facebook and sobbing down the phone ...

My little card reader died, so I can't picspam you guys with photos of the necklaces I completed today. I know, i know; you're terribly disappoint. I went to Hard Day's Night with brynndragon and we competed in the rockband contest (hosted by Harmonix - they threw us a pretty awesome party) afterward. We played Here Comes the Sun and were the only group who had all our members both ...

Tonight I dashed over to Pleasanton after work to meet a lady who'd contacted me after finding my resume on line.  I thought it was going to be an interview.   NOT. It was an opportunity to learn about selling Prepaid Legal Services.  Had I known that's what it was I would never have driven over there.